http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...-asia-shortage

The article is probably too long to copy-paste here. In short, it looks like the rising Asian market will cause the price of Scotch whisky to rise (as well as create shortages in supply, since it takes many years for production to ramp up to match demand).

I suppose this is a good thing for the whisky industry, but it really sucks for we the consumers.

Oddly enough, we're having a similar 'crisis' here in Texas with pecans. Apparently the Chinese have discovered that they love pecans, and they're buying them like crazy. So the price of pecans has skyrocketed to the point where it is currently about $9 per pound here. And people have started resorting to well-organized theft of pecan harvests from orchards. I hope we don't see anything like that with the whisky industry!